While White House Press Secretary Jay Carney and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius got grilled this week about ObamaCare's snafus, the image of their boss, President Obama, has gotten fried.
According to a recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, President Obama's personal likability rating among Americans is more negative than positive for the first time in his presidency: a net negative 4%.
I believe the reason for this slide is that the ObamaCare rollout has finally convinced most Americans that the president is personally responsible for misleading them and personally accountable for imposing hurtful, intrusive, expensive consequences on the public.
Yet Washington Post political reporter Sean Sullivan, writes that, "There doesn't appear to be any one overarching reason, policy or political decision to explain the drop in Obama's popularity, say the NBC/WSJ pollsters. More likely, it's a combination of time and recent political crises like Syria, NSA surveillance, glitches with the health-care law roll out, as well as the standoff over the budget."
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